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Hello everyone,
I am a newbie who recently started using Linux. I was using windows xp in my laptop. Since I got interest in Linux, I installed Fedora 10 in another new partition. After installing it, when I try to log into windows, there is an error popping out "BOOTMGR MISSING. PRESS CTRL+ALT+DEL TO RESTART". I tried using windows XP cd to boot. But it's not working. :-( I can still access files which I stored in windows. But I cant get into WINDOWS... Any solution??? Pls help me out friends. :-(
Regards,
Vignesh.

Hello mate,
I did the steps which you have mentioned. I have added Windows in GRUB list. But still I am not able to log into windows mate. :-( Any other suggestions? I have tried to boot using windows xp cd so that I can atleast repair it. But it doesn't boot. :-(

And to ronlau9 reply: I was not able to log into windows after I installed fedora 10. I didn't do de fragmentation before installing linux. And I did the steps what pixellany has mentioned. But it still doesn't work. Any other solution mate? :-(

Q=":-( Any other suggestions? I have tried to boot using windows xp cd so that I can atleast repair it. But it doesn't boot. :-("

The instruction by Pixellany above should have "given you the option" to boot into your Xp. Try to recheck, redo, and edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst and somewhere after 'defaults' at the bottom add the lines given by Pixellany above. See to it that you copy it point-by-point.

Can you post here your menu.lst entries? at least the uncommented lines at the bottom of the list?

Just for a try, if kernel (hd0,0) doesn't work, try (hd0,1) or (hd0,5).

it happens with some computers,that when linux is installed windows xp cd doesn't boot.it considers the linux partitions as dos partitions.
use partition manager to delete the linux partitions,format windows and recover it and then install linux again.
you can bakup ur xp if you wish to, by booting into linux.
hope this will help you...

i would guess that seeing as windows xp was not defraged before you shrunk it ( sometimes even if you do ) windows can get messed up .
Reinstall xp
you might want to 100% reformat the drive and partition it 50% / 50% ntfs and ext3
then reinstall xp and then fedora .

Hello mate,
Well... I installed Linux in different partition. That partition doesn't have Windows XP in it. And I have tried editing the GRUB list as well. Nothing works mate!!! :-( And on top of that, I think my computer contains some bugs. When I do something, the computer restarts without any reason!!! And after it restarts, there is an error message popping out saying that there is a bug in my computer. Now I think I have made a wrong decision in installing linux. I know I am dumb in linux. But since I wanted to explore something, I started using it. I don't know what to do mate... :-(
Regards,
Vignesh.